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Gmerge, a Google Maps Hack is No More
At about the time that the AP published a story about how cool, useful and interesting some of the hacks using Google Maps/satellite images are, word that G…
The Other Local Search: Craigslist
You’ve heard plenty about how general purpose search engines like Google and Yahoo are developing local search. They want good local listings…
Kayak.com Travel Search Coming to About.com
Kayak.com, the travel metasearch/comparison engine, has announced a deal with About.com to become About’s “premier booking partner” and will provide access to…
Broadband Helps Make Local Search a Reality
Greg Sterling from the Kelsey Group has a new article posted at Search Engine Guide that takes a look at how broadband…
Finding Your Way Around in London
Search Engine Strategies London gets underway tomorrow, and all of us attending the conference will also be spending time navigating this ancient,…
More About Microsoft’s Virtual Earth
A couple of days ago Danny posted about Microsoft’s Virtual Earth service that is set for release sometime this summer. If you…
MSN Virtual Earth To Take On Google Earth
Microsoft sends news today that founder Bill Gates has announced a MSN Virtual Earth service is to debut in the summer. The…
New Local Search Technology Company Prepares for Launch
The Rocky Mountain News article: World Wide Web cut down to size, takes a look at Local Matters, a new local search…
UK’s Yell Purchases Large U.S. Phone Directory Publisher
Reuters and Bloomberg News report in the article: Yell snaps up more U.S. directories that the UK publisher has acquired TransWestern, one…
Allcheckin Travel Search Engine Launched
A new travel search engine especially aimed at the UK market has been launched. Allcheckin is backed by former executives from BT…
Apartment Rentals, Traffic — Merging Other Data Into Google Maps
I’ve been collecting a variety of ways people have been creatively merging data from various places outside of Google into Google Maps…
New Travel Search Engines Grow But Still Dwarfed By Existing Players
New travel search engines are growing in popularity, but they’ve got a long way to go to rival the share established players…
Google Local UK Gets Mobile Site; Google Scholar Lets Any Library Add Links
Google Local UK has gained a new mobile site and the Google Scholar program now allows any library to establish direct links…
Google Signs Deal for Content With InfoUSA
This Dow Jones story and a news release alert us to the fact that Google has just signed a content deal with…
Local Search Means Small Business Motherload
In Online ad sellers think local, News.com revisits why search engines are interested in developing local search. It’s a largely untapped vein…
SBC SMARTPages and YellowPages.com Announce New Flat-Rate Advertising Packages
According to a Clickz story, SBC’s SMARTPages and YellowPages.com are announcing flat-rate pricing packages hoping to get more local customers advertising online.…
Newspapers & Yellow Pages Selling For Search Engines
Ad Agents for the Search Engines from the New York Times looks at how newspapers and yellow pages are helping small businesses…
Study: Online Yellow Page Searchers Spend More than Local Search Users
An article on AdAge.com (free, registration req.): Online Yellow Pages Users Buy Quicker And Spend More, discusses the findings of a new…
A New Travel Search Engine Takes Off
Yes, it’s another travel search engine that offers a meta or federated search of disparate air fare databases to report on. The…
Google Local Partners With AccuWeather
Just checked the weather at AccuWeather? Google Local is now over there, in the company’s first outsourcing of Google Local to a…
LinkedIn to Debut BtoB Local Search Service to Connect Professionals
Yes, even LinkedIn, the web-based networking tool is getting into the local search game. MediaPost reports that the company will announce that…
Google UK Gets Local Listings & Maps
Google Local UK has now launched. Not listed? Some data is gathered in partnership with Yell.com. Want to search locally on your…
Local Search Goes to China
The local search boom is truly global in scope. Baidu.com, the large web search engine from .CN that Google is a minority…
Kayak Launches Self-Serve Ad Product; Priceline Releases Travel Search Tool
The only area that might be as hot as mobile search these days is travel search. How about a “mobile” travel search…
Satellite/Aerial Images Plus Local Info
With all of the interest in satellite and aerial images these days I thought TerraFly, a service from Florida Int. University (with…
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